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The Medieval Church · 1297
Reading on the Apocalypse
Lectura super Apocalipsim
Peter John Olivi · 1248–1298
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What it is
Revelation read through Joachim's scheme, identifying the coming crisis with the persecution of those who keep Francis's rule strictly, and the carnal church with Babylon.
Why it lasted
The most explosive book of the later Middle Ages: condemned in 1326, and the ideological core of the Spiritual Franciscan movement and its martyrs.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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